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17-letter words containing o, n, m, a, s

  • plains of abraham — a high plain adjoining the city of Quebec, Canada: battlefield where the English under Wolfe defeated the French under Montcalm in 1759.
  • ploughman's lunch — a light lunch consisting of bread and cheese, and sometimes pickled onions.
  • poor man's orange — a grapefruit
  • postmillennialism — the doctrine or belief that the second coming of Christ will follow the millennium.
  • potassium cyanide — a white, granular, water-soluble, poisonous powder, KCN, having a faint almondlike odor, used chiefly in metallurgy and photography.
  • potassium nitrate — a crystalline compound, KNO 3 , produced by nitrification in soil, and used in gunpowders, fertilizers, and preservatives; saltpeter; niter.
  • pre-manifestation — an act of manifesting.
  • pre-modifications — an act or instance of modifying.
  • premonstratensian — a member of a religious order founded at Prémontré in N France in 1120 by St Norbert (about 1080–1134)
  • presentationalism — a style of production in which the audience is addressed directly with songs, skits, exposition, etc., and no attempt is made at realism.
  • professional army — an army of trained soldiers
  • program statement — a single instruction in a computer program
  • pseudo-humanistic — a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity.
  • radioluminescence — luminescence induced by nuclear radiation.
  • recoil escapement — anchor escapement.
  • recursion formula — a formula for determining the next term of a sequence from one or more of the preceding terms.
  • recursive acronym — (convention)   A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also mung.
  • renaissance woman — a woman who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field.
  • rhodope mountains — a mountain range in SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula extending along the border between Bulgaria and Greece. Highest peak: Golyam Perelik (Bulgaria), 2191 m (7188 ft)
  • roman catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • ross and cromarty — a historic county in NW Scotland.
  • sacra romana rota — the official name of the Rota.
  • sacred roman rota — rota1 (def 3).
  • saint elmo's fire — corona discharge.
  • saint-simonianism — the socialist system advocated by the Comte de Saint-Simon
  • samurai tradition — the body of customs, thought, practices, etc belonging to the samurai warrior caste of Japan
  • sanctimoniousness — making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc.: They resented his sanctimonious comments on immorality in America.
  • sanctum sanctorum — the holy of holies of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem.
  • sandringham house — a residence of the royal family, in Sandringham, a village in E England, in Norfolk near the E shore of the Wash
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • sawatch mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colo.: highest peak, Elbert
  • second-hand smoke — from sb else's cigarette
  • second-in-command — A second-in-command is someone who is next in rank to the leader of a group, and who has authority to give orders when the leader is not there.
  • self-commendation — the act of commending; recommendation; praise: commendation for a job well done.
  • self-condemnation — the act of condemning.
  • self-confirmation — the act of confirming.
  • self-emancipation — the act of emancipating.
  • self-incompatible — not capable of self-pollination.
  • selkirk mountains — a mountain range in SW Canada, in SE British Columbia. Highest peak: Mount Sir Sandford, 3533 m (11 590 ft)
  • semi-professional — actively engaged in some field or sport for pay but on a part-time basis: semiprofessional baseball players.
  • semimicroanalysis — any analytical method in which the weight of the sample is between 10 and 100 milligrams.
  • senatus consultum — a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.
  • senior management — the most senior staff of an organization or business, including the heads of various divisions or departments led by the chief executive
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • sixth commandment — “Thou shalt not kill”: sixth of the Ten Commandments.
  • smarandache logic — neutrosophic logic
  • smoke and mirrors — (used with a singular or plural verb) something that distorts or blurs facts, figures, etc., like a magic or conjuring trick; artful deception.
  • snatch one's time — to leave a job, taking whatever pay is due
  • snowmass mountain — a mountain in W central Colorado, in the Elk Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains: ski resorts. 14,092 feet (4295 meters).
  • social settlement — settlement (def 14).
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